Housing Herceg Novi

Client: private
Project team: Ana Zatezalo Schenk, Cedomir Ristic, …
Location: Herceg Novi, Montenegro
Surface: 1200sqm
Category: apartment building
Year: 2007- 2008
Status: uncompleted

A four stories housing had to play a role of the “city door” as clients call it. Located at the entrance of the city, the location of this project is by itself ambiguous. It’s located at the entrance of the sity overviewing the sea.The location of the house is characterized by a substantial difference in height; the back garden accesses is …(5m) below the level of the street. Building two storeys high on the street side would create a underground parking area.  Four-stories building might read as a smaller house sitting upon a podium.
The court had been divided into office and restaurant in one side and inner green area with swimming pool and open bar. A range of different types of the appartments have been combined freely thus generating compex elevations. Each unit has a sea view with large balconies receiving the most sun. The silhouettes of peaple moving inside will be visible on the south-west facade like on the screen. We designed a stairs in tne very centre of the building, transparent from both side. It divades a building into a two playng bufer role between the units.

We created a project that is like a door, you can see through, so there is a gap were light and air go through, There we located circulation with elevator and stairs. The spinal column also all the sevices there. We wanted all the apartments with sea view and terrace so we did it!